RECORD: Darwin, C. R. M[onte] Video p. 65. [bottom lines from DAR32.79] [1832] CUL-DAR42.75. Transcribed by Kees Rookmaaker, edited by John van Wyhe & Gordon Chancellor (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Kees Rookmaaker, edited by John van Wyhe & Gordon Chancellor 10.2011. RN1

NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. This is the excised bottom of DAR32.79.

Reproduced with the permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin.

See the introduction to the Geological Diary by Gordon Chancellor.
These transcriptions have been revised and further edited in John van Wyhe and Gordon Chancellor eds., Charles Darwin's geological diary and field notes from the voyage of the Beagle. (OUP forthcoming)


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p. 65 M. Video

in mica query slate & phyllade, but chiefly in the latter, smooth parallel planes of fracture: these cross those of cleavage & of dip to one of the points of direction. —

fissures{

This was generally towards the East & at angle from 10° ... 20°; thus forming steps on the edges of the plates of cleavage: —

These facts were chiefly notcied on the Southern W base of the Mount.


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